Sunday

Is this a good-looking guy or what?(Notice the flowers)

I love my little blog. Today alone I have had visitors from Croatia, Eygpt, Canada, Australia, Peru, Italy and the United States. Rarely has a guy said so little, to so many.

I have had an inordinately high number of visitors today. Many have come from some sort of forum for people involved in the floral trade. I went to the forum to see what was being said, but it is by invitation only. I guess my tirade about Proflowers.com resonated with them.

Well, the city bowling tournament wrapped up this morning. If you had "complete and utter humiliation" in the Sneed offical tournament bowling pool, please contact me and I will send along your lovely prize. I was an embarrassment. The only redeeming feature was that today's event was at a bowling establishment near Casa Sneed, so at least I didn't have to travel far to suck big time.

I see in the papers today that Britney Spears has shaved her head bald. Plus she seems to have had a case of 24-hour substance abuse. It must have been the one day variety, because that is how long she lasted in rehab. Is it me or is the girl getting freakier as she gets older? You may recall that one of my predictions for 2007 was that Britney would behave badly this year. I am thinking of starting one of those psychic phone hotlines.

Speaking of which, I was also reading today that Americans have a better science understanding than they did twenty years ago. Unfortunately, they also believe in more pseudoscience, like astrology or alternative medicine. Women are far more likely to believe in things that are pseusdoscientific, than are men. This is a statement about power not about relative intelligence.

I had a college instructor once who said that religion survives because of the participation of women and specifically poor and powerless women. The less power people feel, the more they look to extra-worldly things for relief. I suspect that the disparity in the belief in things like astrology have the same roots.

When people decry the demise of organized religion in our society, it is more a function of our rising affluence and equality, than of a loss of values. Just my thinking anyway.

Lastly, someone commented the other day that she was surprised that anyone got a bonus at work anymore. I have to say that for all the bellyaching I do about Tedious Systems, my employer, they are generous with the pay. I have lots of complaints about them, but money isn't one of them.

Merle.


Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgemental and cranky


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